Word: fined
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What had you been told when you were pregnant that turned out not to be true? There's once piece of advice that people love to give and I'd seriously love for it to be outlawed. Parents go, "Oh, you'll be fine, you'll just sleep when the baby sleeps." I remember Leta being about two months old and someone said that to me. I almost punched her in the face. It's not possible. She'd take a cat nap and wake up in 15 minutes later, how am I supposed to sleep for exactly those...
...someone so gifted and expect to learn from [him]," Rotella says. "You can learn a lot more from someone like Harrington, who had to make himself great." Harrington agrees, "I can't play someone else's game. But I can play Padraig Harrington's game, and that's just fine with me." He may be a long shot, but hardworking Padraig Harrington may be just the sort of champion we need in these chastened times...
...realize that idling our cars wastes more energy than turning them off and on, or that granola is high in fat. And some of our choices are simply bewildering, which is why it's so easy to stumble into hidden fees and balloon payments tucked in the fine print of our mortgages. Even Ph.D.s can get confused by our society's paperwork; Thaler and Sunstein tell a story in Nudge about struggling to help a health economist pick a prescription-drug plan for her parents...
...course not.” He couldn’t really be considering it. Could he?“I would only do it this one time.”“Yes.” Oh, no.“It would be such a fine thing, since it’s Easter and all.”Now I could only nod.Winnie. You have to stop this. You can’t let him do this. They’ll kill him.Will they, though? Of course not. Wasn’t it a bunch of Northerners...
...illegal immigrants. On March 15, the Malaysian government revoked 60,000 work visas it had granted other Bangladeshis, and officials are now threatening to round up foreigners for deportation. "I am hiding and avoiding places where Bangladeshi people gather," says Hussein. If caught, he risks jail, a heavy fine, and even a whipping before being sent home. (See pictures of migrant workers in the Gulf...